Live system does not initiate orders

I try to run my trading system in the live environment but it does not place orders upon trigger signals. I have my IB TWS simulation (paper trading) account running in the background to execute the orders but nothing happens. However, the IB live data feeds works fine and so does the trading system when running the simulation. Also, the folder that contains the symbol I want to trade has IB set as the Broker Service to be used. What am I missing here?

The symbol I want to trade is an 'EOE' future (Currency: EUR / Exchange: FTA / Tick size: 0.05 / Contract size: 200 / Exchange opening hours from 9 AM - 17:35 PM CET or 3 - 11:35 AM EST). I understand from http://www.rightedgesystems.com/forums/FindPost1819.aspx that you have to make sure that you have the tick size and contract size set correctly in the symbol information, otherwise IB may reject the order because it does not conform to the minimum price variation.

I think we have a case where a number passed to TWS is not being forced to use points as decimal placeholders and is instead using the local of the machine and using a comma. Continuing to investigate.